The Climate and Aerosol group at UC Irvine (www.ess.uci.edu/~zender)
seeks full time graduate student researchers with enthusiasm for
modeling problems in atmospheric and terrestrial physics, climate, and
chemistry. We use sophisticated numerical models of the Earth system
to improve understanding of aerosols, trace gases, and clouds in the
climate-chemistry system. 

Topics which we are interested in pursuing as student projects include:

Processes and mechanisms responsible for observed changes
in mineral dust aerosol at interglacial/glacial transitions

Bioclimatic controls (vegetation, precipitation) on dust emissions

Non-linear effects in aerosol absorption, scattering, and extinction

Role of precipitation scavenging and cloud geometry in trace species budgets

Role of boundary layer instability in dust emissions

Partitioning natural from anthropogenic dust emissions

Mesoscale processes and mechanisms of dust entrainment and deposition

Integrating wind and riverine erosion into a single model

Simulating the effects of absorbing aerosol on snow and ice albedo

Indirect effects of dust and sea salt on precipitation

Biogeographical distribution of vulnerability increased erosion under
climate change